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4:49

Christopher M. Moreman

The dark history of zombies

Posted Apr 2022

5:37

Iseult Gillespie

How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis

Posted Jun 2021

5:31

Haimanti Roy

Why was India split into two countries?

Posted Jun 2021

4:57

Mark Robinson

A day in the life of the Oracle of Delphi

Posted Jun 2021

4:46

Brian A. Pavlac

A brief history of the devil

Posted Mar 2021

5:24

Kayla Wolf

Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition

Posted Mar 2021

5:21

Rod Phillips

A brief history of divorce

Posted Jan 2021

4:54

Mostafa Minawi

The rise of the Ottoman Empire

Posted Jan 2021

13:02

His Holiness Pope Francis

Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take (English voiceover)

Posted Jan 2021

13:02

Su Santidad el Papa Francisco

Nuestro imperativo moral para actuar sobre el cambio climático — y 3 pasos que podemos dar

Posted Jan 2021

5:21

Iseult Gillespie

Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death

Posted Jan 2021

4:29

Soraya Field Fiorio

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Posted Jan 2021

5:17

Noah Charney

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting

Posted Dec 2020

10:59

Wale Elegbede

It takes a community to eradicate hate

Posted Dec 2020

12:42

His Holiness Pope Francis

Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take

Posted Oct 2020

4:39

Iseult Gillespie

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

Posted Sep 2020

4:51

Philip Freeman

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

Posted Jul 2020

3:56

Alex Gendler

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

Posted Jul 2020

4:54

Rod Phillips

What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol

Posted Jul 2020

47:30

Far Flung

Oberammergau

Posted Jul 2020

4:28

Gabriel Prieto

A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman

Posted Jun 2020

4:13

Kay Read

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife

Posted May 2020

5:10

Brian A. Pavlac

What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials

Posted May 2020

4:17

Daina Ramey Berry

The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth

Posted Apr 2020

1h 4m

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

How we can navigate the coronavirus pandemic with courage and hope

Posted Mar 2020

4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

Who was the world's first author?

Posted Mar 2020

5:13

Matteo Salvadore

The imaginary king who changed the real world

Posted Mar 2020

4:40

Antara Raychaudhuri and Iseult Gillespie

The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment

Posted Feb 2020

5:14

Jay Van Bavel

Do politics make us irrational?

Posted Feb 2020

4:52

Eden Girma

The mysterious life and death of Rasputin

Posted Jan 2020

4:32

Theresa A. Yugar

History's "worst" nun

Posted Nov 2019

4:34

Chip Berlet

Are the Illuminati real?

Posted Oct 2019

4:56

Sheila Marie Orfano

Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"?

Posted Oct 2019

4:09

Philip Freeman

A day in the life of a Celtic Druid

Posted Sep 2019

4:29

Alex Gendler

A day in the life of a Cossack warrior

Posted Aug 2019

4:12

Shrabani Basu

From pacifist to spy: WWII's surprising secret agent

Posted Aug 2019